Lego for Christmas
My brother and his family come to San Francisco every other Christmas to spend the holidays at my parent’s house, which is not far from my house. My brother and his wife have two great kids, a girl and a boy. This year the kids got a cool Lego set unlike any I’ve seen first hand. I know these sets have been around for years now, but I’ve never seen a set in use before.
Today’s Lego are inspiring kids to be inventors like never before. The set Andrew’s kids got has proximity sensors and inclination sensors, and motors that are powered from the USB socket on a PC or Mac computer. The sensors and motors are read and controlled by software that runs on the attached computer. The software let users program the Lego so that it actually does something.
In this video, Andrew helps his kids make use of the software, using a propeller plane I helped put together. I didn’t need to help though as the directions were very clear, and contained zero words… just drawings. It was all really quite impressive. I would have loved to have a set like this as a kid. In fact, I’d love to have a set like this now. Santa, are you reading my blog?
